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The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. – Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985

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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. – Thomas Szasz

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap. – Proverb

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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. – Louisa May Alcott

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